The little crowd stood for a moment speechless, gazing with woebegone expressions on their faces at the wreck of their hopes and handiwork; then the silence was broken by a subdued chuckle coming from the other side of the wall on their left, and every one, with a start and a sudden clinching of fists, cried simultaneously: "The Philistines!"

Ha, ha, ha!" Acton eyed him for a moment with a look of indignant astonishment; then he began to smile, Jack Vance commenced to chuckle, and very soon all three were laughing in concert.

But a moment later, when the two were walking gingerly over the ice to the spot where Eph had drawn his scooter to a standstill, Samuel fell into a self-congratulatory chuckle.

" "Your mother hath married," cried Stump with fiendish chuckle.

You laid your stick about the shoulders of Mr. Hugh Price, now he will return blow for blow," and, with another chuckle, Stump sauntered away, his gun on his shoulder.

"Now you have done itnot I!" said Peter, with a mischievous chuckle, as he tore up after her.

" Peter threw back his howl in a prolonged chuckle, as he followed Betty's instructions and edged his cricket close to her elbow.

He lifted his champagne glass and kissed the edge of it, and bowed to me, and no one saw but the Comte, and he went into a chuckle of laughter, as he whispered to me that if Victorine had seen she would certainly tear my eyes out on the way home.

He watched Nash eat for a moment of solemn silence and then the foreman looked up to catch a meditative chuckle from the youngster.

" "They wouldn't know," said the man with a chuckle.

There was nothing smothered or furtive about it; there was not even the vestige of a chuckle in it.

"That's one of the tricks of our trade, Watkins," he said with a chuckle.

He sure looks cut up, eh?" The bowed head and rounded shoulders of Red Perris brought a chuckle from the cowpunchers.

A moment later he began to chuckle behind his set teeth.

Perris, blind with rage, barely saw the details, barely heard the many-throated chuckle from the watchers across the patio.

The Jew rubbed his hands with a chuckle, but glanced uneasily at the box, notwithstanding.

Is he a friend av yours, sor?" "No, he's not exactly a friend of mine," Hewitt answered, with a grim chuckle.

she said softly, with a chuckle that was half a sob.

" He frownedthen broke into a chuckle.

Groener seated himself on one of the little chairs and leaned back with a satisfied chuckle.

He gave a little dry chuckle in his throat, and took another pinch of snuff.

" A mild general chuckle greeted this sally, cheered by which the speaker added: "Thought some o' takin' out a policy o' insurance on my cockerel.

" "Juliette seems to have found her vocation," observed Saltash with a lazy chuckle.

" "I inclined to think the best conjurer in such a case would be an able-bodied cat," he said, with a provoking chuckle.

(a chuckle and toothy smile)